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2024-03-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Aid from Cyprus to enter Gaza via IDF-built pier; elsewhere the IDF continues clearing Hamasniks from the landscape along with their works and supplies
Interesting how quickly they moved from mass starvation to mere pockets of famine.
[IsraelTimes] Bloc’s humanitarian chief adds to growing calls for Israel to open more land routes into Strip; charity starts loading humanitarian supplies onto second vessel at Cyprus port

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it was preparing for the arrival in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
of a ship from Cyprus bringing almost 200 tons of food in what will be the first humanitarian aid delivery by sea, as the EU humanitarian chief warned there are already pockets of famine in the Strip.

The charity ship Open Arms set sail on Tuesday out of Larnaca port, towing a barge containing a load of flour, rice, and protein from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) organization, funded by the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus.

The IDF said the aid delivery was being "carried out in coordination with Israeli security and civilian authorities, in accordance with the directive of the government of Israel and at the request of the US government."

The ship was to be inspected by the Israeli Navy at sea once it gets to around 20 nautical miles from the Gaza coast, according to information seen by The Times of Israel. From there, the aid ship will be escorted by the Navy and Air Force toward Gaza’s coast. At a certain stage, an Israeli vessel will tow the aid to a makeshift temporary pier built by the IDF in the central Gaza Strip.
If Israel has already built a pier, why is the American one trumpeted by President Biden in his State of the Union address needed?
The distribution of the aid itself will not be carried out by the IDF. An Israeli official previously told The Times of Israel that the WCK was responsible for getting the food to Gazook civilians.

At the coast, the IDF will secure the aid at a distance from the air and sea, similar to how it has secured convoys on the ground.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
a second ship with a larger cargo of food aid to Gaza was being loaded in Cyprus on Thursday, WCK said.

The charity said it was loading a vessel at Larnaca port with 300 tons of food aid — including legumes, canned tuna, vegetables, rice and flour.

"Our pallets should be screened and loaded by the end of the day Cyprus time," the WCK said in a statement. It did not say when that vessel would set sail.

The IDF is also carrying out trials of delivering aid directly to northern Gaza using a new military road,
…the one everyone was fussing about, because God forbid the Israelis make it easier for themselves to hunt down Hamas, etc hard boys…
while various nations continue to carry out airdrops.

The expected arrival of the ships comes amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The EU’s humanitarian aid and crisis management chief Janez Lenarcic said Thursday that there were already pockets of famine in the enclave, and warned it could spread to the whole region. Speaking to journalists, he urged Israel to open more ground routes to deliver aid to Gaza.
”In fact,” he added, “best would be for Israel to knock down the entire security wall surrounding Gaza — except Egypt’s section, of course — and let everyone go in and out unmolested, no matter their intentions or the explosives tucked into their back pockets.”
Lenarcic’s comments came a day after 25 organizations, including Amnesia Amnesty International and Oxfam, said airdrops and efforts to open a maritime corridor were "no alternative" to land deliveries because they could only provide a fraction of the aid needed.
The goal here, clearly, is to deliver a lifestyle to the Gazans on par with the nicer neighbourhoods of Paris, London, and Rome, at no cost to to the inhabitants.
Additionally, Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos hosted a virtual meeting on Wednesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
and senior ministers and officials from Britannia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to discuss the maritime corridor.

"The ministers agreed that there is no meaningful substitute to land routes via Egypt and Jordan and entry points from Israel into Gaza for aid delivery at scale," they said in a joint statement.

They also called on Israel to open the port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, for aid deliveries.

the IDF said Thursday that troops of the elite LOTAR counter-terrorism unit located rocket launchers adjacent to a school and rockets under a bed in the home of a Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
operative in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The IDF said troops have been raiding Hamas hideout apartments and other sites in various neighborhoods of Khan Younis. The military released footage of troops discovering a rocket launcher, which had already been used, as well as the cache of weapons in the home of the Hamas operative.

Additionally, the IDF said that troops on Wednesday spotted and struck a group of murderous Moslems after they launched a mortar from central Gaza at Israeli border communities. The mortar fell short and impacted inside the Strip, and within five minutes the cell was located and killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, the IDF said.

Also in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas button men over the past day, including by calling in airstrikes and through tank shelling.

In southern Gaza, the 98th Division continued to battle Hamas in the Khan Younis area.

The IDF said the Givati Brigade raided buildings in Khan Younis’s Hamad Town residential complex, locating a rocket launcher in one of them. Givati troops also called in an airstrike on two Hamas operatives spotted in their area, the IDF said.

In the Bani Suheila area, the 7th Armored Brigade spotted and called in tank shelling against three operatives that were approaching them, and also called in an airstrike on two operatives near a Hamas weapons depot, the IDF said.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [64 views ]  Top
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#1 If Israel has already built a pier, why is the American one trumpeted by President Biden in his State of the Union address needed?

Because Hamas needs Human shields - what is better than American servicemen?
Posted by grom the introspective 2024-03-15 03:49||   2024-03-15 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Better with Gen Z concertgoers.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-15 08:13||   2024-03-15 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaza Strip receives nearly 200 tons of food and supplies, UN describes 'huge obstacles' to getting relief
Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-15 09:56||   2024-03-15 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Define: Useless eaters...
Posted by M. Murcek  2024-03-15 09:57||   2024-03-15 09:57|| Front Page Top

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